(Ugh, I hate top-posting threads, but it's too late to reverse this now.) Arguably, nomics' best rules are those that don't really do anything.
The FRC had a rule that the player who gained the most style points in the previous round was the Wizard, and other players had to refer to them only as the Wizard (using any other name would end up giving you a penalty within the game, so the rule was mostly just there to catch people out). IIRC it was repealed a while ago, but that's the sort of harmless and ultimately inconsequential reward that makes sense for something like Karma. "Shogun" wouldn't really work properly for that because it's not as funny as "Wizard", but maybe we could have a mandatory title rather than name, "the honorable Aris" or whatever. Ideally not as a SHALL; perhaps it could be a SHOULD with a trivial consequence for breaking it (and a corresponding trivial reward for catching a breach, as this would have to be pragmatised). Another possibility would be a patent title that can be awarded with Agoran Consent to players with sufficiently high karma. (If you bribed players for karma, you'd be unlikely to get the title.) On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 11:18 +1000, Rebecca wrote: > Well it's fine as is, surely one of our best rules imo > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:40 AM Aris Merchant < > thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd be opposed to that. People might start bribing others for > > Karma, which defeats the purpose of the system. > > > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:37 PM Rebecca <edwardostra...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Very much worth keeping imo, but maybe it should have > > > consequences like a win at some point - once a year maybe? > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:25 AM Reuben Staley < > > > reuben.sta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I actually rather like the system, it's just hard to remember > > > > to do anything with it. It's also sometimes difficult to find > > > > people to penalize. -- ais523
